Vehicle-pole tip.



PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903-.

D. K. STONE.

VEHICLE POLE TIP.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.15, 1902.

' NO MODEL.

wihwooeo UNITED STATES Tatented August 4, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

VEHICLE-POLE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,172, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed December 15, 1902. Serial No. 135.232. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID K. STONE, a citizen of the United States,residingatBloomingdale, in the county of Van Enron and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Pole Tips; and I do hereby declare that the followingisafull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has for its object to provide a metal tip for the poles of vehicles in which both strength and durability will be embodied therein and the spring-actuated latch device for holding the neck-yoke thereon will form the end or extremity of the tip and also serve as a handle to depress the latch when required. This construction of the spring-actuated latch, which has its bearing at the extremity of the pole-tip, will take undue strain off the spring and enable a very light spring to be used, thereby providing a pole-tip possessing material advantages in this class of devices.

The invention consists in a pole-tip constructed substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view of a pole-tip embodying myinvention; Fig. 2, a side elevation, partly in section; Fig. 3, a detail perspective view of the latch device.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a metal pole-tip, with the usual socket a to fit over the end of the pole B, said tip having the shoulder b to serve as a keeper in holding the neck-yoke between it and the spring-actuated latch device 0. The poletip A is formed with a longitudinal recess 0, in which is located the springactuated latch device 0, pivoted to said pole-tip. It will be seen that the recess extends through the end or outer extremity of the pole-tip and in this respect is unlike the pole-tips in common use, which has an outer end wall to the recess, resulting in forming a trough for the accumulation of dirt. The spring-actuated latch C has a forwardly-extending shank d, which terminates in a head D, adapted to bear against the outer end of the pole-tip to form a solid end and also serve as a handle to depress the latch device in removing or replacing the neck-yoke. The bottom of the recess c is formed with a mortised seat 6 for the lower end of a suitable spring E, the upper end of said spring engaging a suitable seatf upon the under side of the latch device 0, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The head I) is formed with inclined bearing g to engage correspondingly-formed bearing h on the end of the pole-tip, the inclination of the bearings permitting the head to be raised when it is desired to depress the latch device, which could not be done were the bearings straight. The head D not only forms the handle to the latch device, but forms the end or extremity of the pole-tip, and the head having its bearing against the end of the pole-tip at points 9 it there is less strain on the spring, and consequently a very light spring can be used.

The recess 0, extending out through the end of the pole-tip A, enables any sand and grit that may accumulate in the recess to be readily removed by allowing water to run into the recess to wash it out, which otherwise would be dit'ficult if the recess were closed by a wall at its outer end, resulting in forming a trough for the lodgment of dirt and grit which would aftect the action of the spring and likewise the latch device.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A vehicle-pole tip having a longitudinal recess extending out through the end of the tip, the side walls of the recess at the ends thereof having inclined bearings, and a pivoted spring-actuated latch seated in the recess and havinga head at its outerextremity with inclined hearings to correspond with those of the side walls of the recess, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A vehicle-pole tiphaving a shoulder to serve as a keeper, a longitudinal recess formed in the tip and having a mortisedseat,

said recess extending out through the end of In testimony that I claim the above I have the tip, a pivoted latch seated in the recess hereunto subscribed mynamein the presence and having a grooved seat, aspring engaging of two witnesses.

the mortised and grooved seats, said latch DAVID K. STONE. having a shank terminating in a head to close Witnesses: the open end of the recess, substantially as LEAH BABCOOK,

and for the purpose described. FARBS ALLEN. 

